#president inauguration

[toothbiter]

"omg elon was just stimming! he's autistic and just stimming guys! the nazi salute is just a stim for poor baby elon musk!!!!" ok next time i start to stim i'll make sure to stim shooting a gun into your rotted skull💛🥺💫🙏❤️🥰🤪🤗✨🩷

[belair0]

i’ll put these here since apparently we’re just going to censor tf out of our media now

he had just gotten done saying how this is the most important election of american history.

[eatinghisheart-inthemarketplace]

I can't believe the horse is back in the fucking hospital

[lechusza]

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[onlytiktoks]

[my-midlife-crisis]

He even tucks the thumb

oh boy

Welcome to the Fourth Reich dickheads. This is what you wanted. This is what you get.

[deadpresidents]

"It hurt to lose to Ronald Reagan. But after the election, I tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. Later, from my experience in trying to brief him on matters of supreme importance, I was very disturbed at his lack of interest. The issues were the 15 or 20 most important subjects that I as President could possibly pass on to him. His only reaction of substance was to express admiration for the political circumstances in South Korea that let President Park close all the colleges and draft all the demonstrators. That was the only issue on which he came alive."

-- Former President Jimmy Carter, on losing the 1980 election and the transition leading to the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, interview with TIME Magazine, October 11, 1982.

[queerpunktomatoes]

For non-USA-inauguration reasons (/sar) I'm just going to drop this list of anti-carceral mental health supports. (988 and other government-run resources are ultimately connected to the cops. This is a list of resources that will not report you /srs) Obviously, the bigger issues are things like housing, food, discrimination, etc, but if you need a life vest while we're still working on fixing the system, here they are.

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Please trust in the hundreds of thousands of people fighting for you right now. We love you. We are trying so hard to make a better world for you /gen

[aroacesocialist]

I know trump being inaugurated, especially on MLK Jr. day, fucking sucks, but don’t let it stop you from organizing. Not only that, but also if you are in a position where you will not be the first people directly harmed by him, please be a fucking nuisance to whatever he tries to do. I know I am going to be a pain to whatever plans he has, and especially work within my community to educate people on the negative effects of a trump presidency. If you accept a doomerist attitude, then the facists win.

[transspeciesguy]

To all my fellow Americans, especially trans & POC Americans, please stay safe and keep fighting.

[my-dark-happy-place]

Oh so the Trump presidency starts with Elon Musk, the richest guy on earth, throwing up a Nazi Salute on the big stage and getting applause for it. That's definitely reassuring and totally not fucked up.

[saywhat-politics]

Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund.

Other major tech companies and executives like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Meta both announced $1 million donations to the inaugural fund late last year.

[cemeterygrace]

PSA:

when the mass deportations start on tuesday and you see ice vehicles or agents, you’re gonna yell ice raid and la migra at the top of your motherfucking lungs.

you are going to SCREAM it.

[business-as-usual-bats]

"Give Elon Musk the benefit of the doubt-"

Except here's the thing- I did.

Because I heard about it before I saw it. I never particularly liked Musk, but I moreso felt fairly ambivalent toward him. I certainly did not picture him as a Nazi.

When I first heard about the Nazi salute I was surprised. And when that person told me, "Oh, but they're saying it was unintentional, just him being awkward-"

I believed that. I believed it was most likely a mistake, and people were exaggerating because so many are upset and panicked.

And then I saw the video.

Immediately it was so much worse than I had imagined. I was shocked. Everything about the video to his body language to his facial expression. How he did it twice. It was so obviously intentional and undeniable. And even then I compared it to multiple other videos of Nazis doing the salute, including modern-day Nazis. It's identical.

He didn't even deny it immediately afterward???

Not even a simple, "Ha, obviously that's not what I meant-" He avoided the question and laughed it off altogether, to imply MAYBE it wasn't on purpose. And yet you can't help but notice he still didn't deny it.

And the arguments defending him are INSANE. They capture pictures of other politicians mid-wave, mid-gesture and say, "See??? See??? They've all done it!"

No. They haven't. Not like that. Not a salute like that. Not even close to being so intentional and obvious.

Or they go, "It was him throwing his heart out to the crowd-"

No. There's multiple videos of him doing that during other speeches of his, and it's nowhere near this Nazi salute. Palms turned upward, or using both arms, etc, etc. It's not as if he's not used to giving speeches, as if he has not been coached and had training on what to do or not to do when public speaking.

"Noooo it's the Roman Salute!"

The Nazi Salute is based off the Roman Salute specifically (the arm is just dipped slightly lower-) AND EITHER WAY THEY'RE BOTH CONSIDERED HATE SYMBOLS??

The cognitive dissonance of people trying and trying and trying to excuse him. And to be clear- I would love if there was a good excuse! I don't want him to have thrown up a Nazi salute on live national television!

But he did. I cannot deny my own eyes. No matter what I am told, I know what I see as clear as day.

I'm not even saying he's a Nazi, I'm not claiming to know what his beliefs are or why he did a Nazi salute on Live television. Hell, maybe he did it as a dare, or a challenge to himself to see what he can get away with, but it doesn't really matter why.

What I know:

1. For whatever reason, Elon Musk intentionally did the Nazi Salute on Live television.

2. He did not immediately deny doing so or apologize.

3. Because of this, today's Nazis are praising him for it. They are saying "We're back!" And "This is our time!" And various celebratory phrases.

4. Even if you argue this was unintentional (even though I can tell by his body language it was) the damage has been done. Nazis are rallying behind him, encouraged, excited. This is going to have consequences.

Nazis have already been parading around my city. Now they're going to be bolder. The damage has been done.

TLDR: I was fully prepared to believe Elon doing the Nazi salute was an awkward mistake but one look at the video and I cannot fool myself into believing otherwise. And now we have to pay the price for his stupid actions.

[deadpresidents]

I'm not 100% sure whether the Constitution allows it, but Kamala should consider hitting Trump with a steel chair like this is a WWE match and just taking the oath of office. It's worth a try at least.

[mycatownsmeforever]

Seeing what Musk did on national television during the U.S. Presidential Inauguration radicalized me all over again. This is completely unacceptable. As a country we cannot allow ourselves to be controlled by fascists' and fascist NAZIS at that?! Delete all of your Twitter accounts. Feel free to use my art above to post as your explanation. Leave this man with nothing but the angry mob that will come for him too eventually. Delete your META accounts too. Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. They cannot use us for propaganda if we do not give them access. This is NOT the America that the world deserves. And I resent the men in power that allowed for the worlds richest turned white nationalist into the government system .